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the affair had been suspected among patraeus is in a circle. three separate intelligence sources say the president's top counter-terrorism adviser, john brennan, was told about the affair in the summer of 2011. the white house denies this. lou: thank you. jennifer griffin, fox is national security correspondent. david patraeus will not a fear of for congress to answer congressional cuts -- questions aut bnghazi. lawmakers still want to hear from him at some point. they also want to know why they were not bried by the fbi before news of the affair broke friday. fox news chief inteigence correspondent atharine heritage has the latest on that ankle. >> although the investigation began as early as june, the chair and ranking members of the house and senate intelligce committees were not notified that the cia director and is alleged lover have fallen within thscope of an fbi investigation. >> received no advance notice. it was like a lightning bot. >> with a half-dozen hearings scheduled this week on benghazi, acting ciadirectorike morale is expecte
the affair had been suspected among patraeus is in a circle. three separate intelligence sources say the president's top counter-terrorism adviser, john brennan, was told about the affair in the summer of 2011. the white house denies this. lou: thank you. jennifer griffin, fox is national security correspondent. david patraeus will not a fear of for congress to answer congressional cuts -- questions aut bnghazi. lawmakers still want to hear from him at some point. they also want to know why...
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more fallout in the patraeus scandal. how long did the fbi know and did they sit on the information? why did this candle break just before the head of the cia was set to testify on benghazi. we are joined to sort through the answers. ♪ lou: biographer paula bridewell faces questions about whether she reveal classified an affirmation about the benghazi attack that she was privy to because, perhaps, for relationship with then cia director david patraeus. to assess all of this and that second day of shelling by the israelis into syria, we are joined by a senior editor for the washington free begin, fox news middle east expert. good to have you both year. let me begin with you. what we are now watching, i series of time lines. the cia timeline on benghazi. we have them military timeline. we have the paulo bridewell timeline, if you will. this is getting to be extraordinarily complicated, and it has some very peculiar dimensions to it that suggest we have a long way to go to know what this administration was thinking and why
more fallout in the patraeus scandal. how long did the fbi know and did they sit on the information? why did this candle break just before the head of the cia was set to testify on benghazi. we are joined to sort through the answers. ♪ lou: biographer paula bridewell faces questions about whether she reveal classified an affirmation about the benghazi attack that she was privy to because, perhaps, for relationship with then cia director david patraeus. to assess all of this and that second...
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i have respect for david patraeus. i don't know the detils. he served his country dave -- he sacrificed a great deal. think it is a tragedy. there's also another story here. lou: that story, because we learned very quickly that he will certainly not the apparently testifying before congress next wednesday in closed-door meetings, three separate investigations. what do you make of it? >> the fact that he has been under investigation which he discussed today by the fbi raises questions about other things he has said and done recently that were kind of lofty, i thought. for example, he apparently gave a briefing to members of congress worry said that the video cost -- the hijacked spontaneous protest and led to the ooting and killing in benghazi. >> the idea of him being a straight shooter was called into question. >> feeling pressure to conform to the party line. he was under investigation. crazier things that happened. lou: that fbi has had scrutiny as the result of a separate and unrelated investigation there were conducting. this looks like i
i have respect for david patraeus. i don't know the detils. he served his country dave -- he sacrificed a great deal. think it is a tragedy. there's also another story here. lou: that story, because we learned very quickly that he will certainly not the apparently testifying before congress next wednesday in closed-door meetings, three separate investigations. what do you make of it? >> the fact that he has been under investigation which he discussed today by the fbi raises questions...
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presidents, and i ask him about the unusual patraeus statement. >> it is not that unusal if you think back about a week ago when statements out of the white house and the administration seemed to suggest that the intelligence community has been deficient in their work and seemed to be throwing the cia under the boss a little bit. and this reaction back from the cia is, i think possibly reasonably predictable even though as you suggest, it is unusual. lou: in the case of the benghazi controversy, will call it that for now, it seems to be one set of the nile's after another. the next being that we still don't know who denied a request for security to be improved, bolstered in benghazi this past summer after a number of attacks on our consulate, on other outposts of the british government, the red cross. somebody denied that, and the president says he cannot answer that question because there is an fbi investigation. >> well, we do know that the first responsibility for the protection of u.s. embassies and consulates is with the host government, and we also know that the host government
presidents, and i ask him about the unusual patraeus statement. >> it is not that unusal if you think back about a week ago when statements out of the white house and the administration seemed to suggest that the intelligence community has been deficient in their work and seemed to be throwing the cia under the boss a little bit. and this reaction back from the cia is, i think possibly reasonably predictable even though as you suggest, it is unusual. lou: in the case of the benghazi...
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releases a time line after almost eight weeks, finally decides to respond before a few days earlier, david patraeus, head of the cia has a statement released hussein no one at the cia in any way hindered or refuse to help for those four americans were killed. and then comes a time line, and then we see a number of news outlets reported that timeline by the cia as if it were gospel. for example, david ignatius at the washington post. a veteran foreign policy correspondent suddenly embracing the cia. i have never seen the likes of this. their version, but without even qualification. >> and you know the tragedy, i kept thinking, where were we in 1972 during the watergate break-in? that was a time, and that movie is seen by every reporter as the cult classic of how reporters investigate the troops got there up against the establishment and are going to fight for the truth. what has happened that is just the opposite. we have a mainstream media that does not want to fight for the truth. it is really the press office of an obama campaign, and i think when you look back 20 years from now and people look a
releases a time line after almost eight weeks, finally decides to respond before a few days earlier, david patraeus, head of the cia has a statement released hussein no one at the cia in any way hindered or refuse to help for those four americans were killed. and then comes a time line, and then we see a number of news outlets reported that timeline by the cia as if it were gospel. for example, david ignatius at the washington post. a veteran foreign policy correspondent suddenly embracing the...
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the demonstration pledging cooperation and sending of witnesses like cia director david patraeus. meanwhile, the fiscal cliff check -- vice-ppesident biden told reporters the administration now has a mandate on tax policy. we will see. lou: thank you. fox news chief white house correspondent. my next guest says president obama won because his campaign was bette organized and better at getting out the vote. joining us now, the anchor of special report on the fox ews channel, co-host of last night's foelection coverage. first of all, let me congratulate you on that coverage. outstanding work, as always. >> thanks, lou. lou: let me go to, first, the first demographics, slice and dice. i heard every strategist talk at length. romney had to turn out the window. he clearly did not. he missed it badly. >> you know, 72 percent of the white vote for mitt romney, but he needed a little bit more. because of the obama machine, the organization of the obama campaign really increased the outpouri of support, even from 2008. what is so hard to believe, lou is that in these demographic categories
the demonstration pledging cooperation and sending of witnesses like cia director david patraeus. meanwhile, the fiscal cliff check -- vice-ppesident biden told reporters the administration now has a mandate on tax policy. we will see. lou: thank you. fox news chief white house correspondent. my next guest says president obama won because his campaign was bette organized and better at getting out the vote. joining us now, the anchor of special report on the fox ews channel, co-host of last...
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>> patraeus appears to -- the seventh from petraeus appears to be amended. what he did stay based on th news reporting is that the statement that was sent out, the riding said katie suspected. the change was indications of tremists. this goes to a larger narrative that there was not a terrorist attack, and if you listen for thpresident's words of the united nations he talks about a mindless attack. mindless activities. well, no. it was not mindless. it was preplanned. here's the president trying to make the point that it was not of planned terrorist act. something about the way the president is approaching this and all his supporters have got behind in to try to sell is narrative to the united states. it just wasn't true. lou: top house armed services democrat and embrace -- adam smith, rather, as we just saw talking about the statements by ambassador rice saying he does not understand how a terrorist attack can be both spontaneous and preplanned. it's just bizarre what is going on here. the 80 logical, if you will, mandated logic of all is appalling . >
>> patraeus appears to -- the seventh from petraeus appears to be amended. what he did stay based on th news reporting is that the statement that was sent out, the riding said katie suspected. the change was indications of tremists. this goes to a larger narrative that there was not a terrorist attack, and if you listen for thpresident's words of the united nations he talks about a mindless attack. mindless activities. well, no. it was not mindless. it was preplanned. here's the president...